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  2. Wikipedia : List of English contractions

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    ’em (informal) them everybody’s: everybody has / everybody is everyone’s: everyone has / everyone is everything's: everything has / everything is finna (informal) fixing to fo’c’sle (informal) forecastle ’gainst (informal) against g’day (informal) good day gimme (informal) give me giv’n (informal) given gi’z (informal)

  3. Nemawashi - Wikipedia

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    Nemawashi (根回し) is a Japanese business informal process of laying the foundation for some proposed change or project by talking to the people concerned and gathering support and feedback before a formal announcement. It is considered an important element in any major change in the Japanese business environment before any formal steps are ...

  4. T–V distinction - Wikipedia

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    In German, Du is only used as an informal pronoun. It is only addressed to persons that one knows well, like family members and friends. It is also most commonly used among peers as a sign of equality, especially among young people. In formal situations with strangers and acquaintances, Sie is used instead. "Ihr" was also used in formal ...

  5. Jiffy (time) - Wikipedia

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    Jiffy can be an informal term for any unspecified short period, as in "I will be back in a jiffy". From this, it has acquired a number of more precise applications as the name of multiple units of measurement, each used to express or measure very brief durations of time.

  6. Formal - Wikipedia

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    Colloquialism, the linguistic style used for informal communication; T–V distinction, involving a distinction between formal and informal words for "you" Formal proof, a fully rigorous proof as is possible only in a formal system; Dynamic and formal equivalence word-for-word translation, especially of the Bible

  7. Formal language - Wikipedia

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    A word over an alphabet can be any finite sequence (i.e., string) of letters. The set of all words over an alphabet Σ is usually denoted by Σ * (using the Kleene star). The length of a word is the number of letters it is composed of. For any alphabet, there is only one word of length 0, the empty word, which is often denoted by e, ε, λ or ...

  8. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    lie (informal) caps capitals carbs carbohydrates cardio cardiovascular training (aerobic exercise) cat catalytic converter catamaran chem chemistry chemo chemotherapy Chevy Chevrolet chimp chimpanzee cig cigarette cishet or cis-het cisgender-heterosexual civ civilization civvy or civvie civilian civvies civilian clothes (military slang) clit ...

  9. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an honorific (abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. . Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of an alternate form such as an affix, clitic, grammatical ...